On Mon 2008-05-26 19:09:57, Oliver Neukum wrote:
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> Am Montag 26 Mai 2008 19:01:48 schrieb Theodore Tso:
> > If the USB stack folks would like to work on how to recognize that
> > it's the same USB stick that had been previously pulled, so that it
> > gets the same block device, and we can decide for how long we should
> > keep dirty buffers around associated with a pulled USB stick, we can
> > certainly have that conversation.  :-)
> 
> Even if we could tell whether the device has remained the same, how
> would we know the medium wasn't exchanged?

We need filesystem support for that, but I guess we should just bite
the bullet and do it for the most common filesystems... it is very
useful for suspend/resume, too and I have heared about (misdesigned)
machines where it will be basically mandatory...
								Pavel
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